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If you do the C squared = A squared + B squared and come out with a long decimal it is easy to convert to feet and inches. Say your answer is 10.7125 feet, multiply .7125 X 12 inches = 8.55 inches, so a bit over 8 1/2 inches. If you multiply the .55 inches by 16 you will get the answer to the nearest 1/16 of an inch, .55 x 16 = 8.8 sixteenths or 9/16 inch. With a tape measure and all the variables of measuring you won't get closer than a 1/16 of an inch. Concrete calculators have this feature built in for squaring foundations.

Because, for some floor layouts, there are better triplets available, which is what the OP was apparently aking for.

yes, exactly. some of the 45-45-90 will fill the room better, and give me longer legs to go from.
and, I got to layout wood planking, starting in the back of a room, and meet up with planking in the hallway, and the hallway goes around a corner heading into said room.

yes, exactly. some of the 45-45-90 will fill the room better, and give me longer legs to go from.
and, I got to layout wood planking, starting in the back of a room, and meet up with planking in the hallway, and the hallway goes around a corner heading into said room.

But 45-45-90 is always going to end up with a fractional number as noted already. Either the sides or the hypotenuse is going to have a fraction in it. Now there might well be a particular set value that works out to where both the sides and the hypotenuse are integers for one and the other is close enough to an actual integer. Like up to perhaps .01 or .02 out. But that's just one particular size.

A 3-4-5 is only "longer and skinnier" by 1/3 part for the longer side. So hardly "tall and skinny" as suggested. And as we're seeing it's so easy to arrive at a reasonably enlargement of this basic integer relationship that it seems like folly to try to keep in mind a single particular set of dimensions for a 45-45-90 that isn't even going to be a perfect simple integer relationship.

I also cannot imagine a room squareness test where I'd need better than 3ft x 4ft to look for 5ft to confirm trueness our "outness". I'd only use 6ft x 8ft and then look for 10ft where I've got two folks with one in the corner holding the dumb end and the other with the tape measure body at the ends and they want room to get around the guy stuck in the corner. So 6-8-10 just to get some extra room for two bodies rather than it needs to be that much more accurate.